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    The New Roman Empire

    Anthony Kaldellis

    A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized…

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    The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630

    Anthony Kaldellis, Marion Kruse

    Presenting a bold re-interpretation of the history of the east Roman field armies that corrects longstanding mistakes in the interpretation and weighing of evidence (especially the Notitia dignitatum), this volume…

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    Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians: Texts in translation with introductions and notes

    Anthony Kaldellis

    Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient historians. Each translated text is accompanied by an introduction and notes to highlight the specific…

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    Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians: Texts in translation with introductions and notes

    Anthony Kaldellis

    Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians includes translations of texts written by Byzantines on specific ancient historians. Each translated text is accompanied by an introduction and notes to highlight the specific…

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    A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History’s Most Orthodox Empire

    Anthony Kaldellis

    A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities will reinforce these old prejudices, while also stimulating a deeper interest among readers in one of history’s most interesting civilizations. Many of the zanier tales…

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    Byzantium Unbound

    Anthony Kaldellis

    This book takes a provocative long view of Byzantium, one that begins in the early Roman empire and extends all the way to the modern period, to argue that Byzantium…

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    Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity

    Anthony Kaldellis

    A major new study of the last great historian of classical antiquity.

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    Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature

    Anthony Kaldellis

    Ethnography After Antiquity explores the modes and motivations of Byzantine ethnographic writing, shedding new light on how Byzantines distinguished themselves from foreign cultures.

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    A New Herodotos: Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Byzantium, and the Emergence of the West

    Anthony Kaldellis

    In this companion to the two-volume Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library translation of The Histories by Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Anthony Kaldellis explores the ethnic dynamics that undergird the Histories, which recount the…

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    The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome

    Anthony Kaldellis

    Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome. Here, Anthony Kaldellis reconnects Byzantium to its Roman roots, arguing that it…

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    Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium

    Anthony Kaldellis

    Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine. While the identities of eastern minorities were clear, that of the ruling majority remains obscured…

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    Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition

    Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University)

    This text was first book to examine the transformation in the meaning of Hellenism in late antiquity and Byzantium, when Greek identity and the classical legacy were profoundly re-evaluated. Its…

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    The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens

    Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University)

    Presenting a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis examines the history of Byzantine Athens. He focuses specifically on the Parthenon, which became a Christian church and a major site of…

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    Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition

    Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University)

    This text was first book to examine the transformation in the meaning of Hellenism in late antiquity and Byzantium, when Greek identity and the classical legacy were profoundly re-evaluated. Its…

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    The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens

    Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University)

    Presenting a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis examines the history of Byzantine Athens. He focuses specifically on the Parthenon, which became a Christian church and a major site of…

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    Secret History: with Related Texts

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    By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian’s regime, Prokopios’ The Secret History destroyed forever that emperor’s reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of…

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    The Secret History: with Related Texts

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    Prokopios’ Secret History, circa 550, presents the author’s disillusionment with the reign of the Roman emperor Justinian.

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    The Prosopography of Byzantine Lesbos, 284-1355 A.D.: A Contribution to the Social History of the Byzantine Province

    Stephanos Efthymiaidis,Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio State University)

    This book is the first comprehensive prosopography of a provincial region of the Byzantine Empire, the island of Lesbos, throughout the entire period of its being controlled by the Byzantine…

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    Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos

    Michael Psellos

    Presents English translations from the works of Michael Psellos, a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. This book contains the works that Psellos wrote about his family, including a funeral…

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    Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos

    Michael Psellos

    Presents English translations from the works of Michael Psellos, a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. This book contains the works that Psellos wrote about his family, including a funeral…

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    The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630

    Anthony Kaldellis, Marion Kruse

    Presenting a bold re-interpretation of the history of the east Roman field armies that corrects longstanding mistakes in the interpretation and weighing of evidence (especially the Notitia dignitatum), this volume…

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    The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium

    The first comprehensive survey of Byzantine intellectual endeavors, exploring areas from religion and rhetoric to politics and medicine. Essential for scholars of ancient and medieval intellectual history, Islamic and Renaissance…

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    Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece

    Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects a variety of funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography that illuminate the roles of holy men during one of the most obscure periods…

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    The Histories

    Laonikos Chalkokondyles

    Laonikos was one of the Greek historians of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the first Greek writer to treat Islam as a legitimate cultural and religious system. He…

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    The Histories

    Laonikos Chalkokondyles

    Laonikos was one of the Greek historians of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and the first Greek writer to treat Islam as a legitimate cultural and religious system. He…

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    Genesios on the Reigns of the Emperors: Translation and Commentary

    Kaldellis Anthony

    The work On the Reigns attributed to Genesios is an important and pivotal source for the history of the latter part of the ninth century and of the later stages…

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    Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade

    Anthony Kaldellis (Professor of Greek and Latin, Professor of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University)

    A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood provides an engaging chronicle of the various…

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    Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade

    Anthony Kaldellis (Professor of Greek and Latin, Professor of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University)

    A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood provides an engaging chronicle of the various…

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    Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos

    Michael Psellos

    Contains translations of the funeral orations written by Michael Psellos, the leading Byzantine intellectual of the eleventh century, for the three ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople.

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    Psellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos

    Michael Psellos

    Contains translations of the funeral orations written by Michael Psellos, the leading Byzantine intellectual of the eleventh century, for the three ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople.

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    The History

    Michael Attaleiates

    In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by enemies on all…

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    The Wars of Justinian

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    A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios’ late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography - for the last 21st century reader.

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    The Wars of Justinian

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    A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios’ late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography - for the last 21st century reader.

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